Právněhistorické studie / Legal History Studies (Charles University journal; below referred to as PHS or Journal) is a scientific journal listed in the international prestigious database SCOPUS. The journal is published by Charles University in Prague under the guarantee of the Department of Legal History of the Faculty of Law of Charles University. It is published by the Karolinum Press. The journal focuses on the field of legal history and related topics.
Issue 1 of the Journal was published by the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Publishing in June 1955. The Journal was initially published by the Cabinet of Legal History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science (CSAV), later by the Institute of State and Law (CSAV) and then by the Institute of Legal History of the Faculty of Law of Charles University.
PHS is issued three times a year in April, August, and December and it presents original scientific works/papers as well as reviews, annotations and news from the scientific field of legal history. It also introduces annotated texts of a legal history nature. PHS accepts manuscripts from domestic as well as foreign authors. Manuscripts submitted by foreign authors are published in original language, namely in English, Slovak, German, French, Italian or Polish.
PHS (ISSN 0079-4929) is registered in the Czech national ISSN centre (supervised by the State Technical Library). The Journal is registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic according to Act No. 46/2000 Sb., on Rights and Liabilities for the Publishing of Periodicals and Change of Some Acts (Press Act), and it is allocated with registration number of periodical press MK E 18813.
PHS is an open journal and ensures open access to scientific data (Open Access). The entire content is released as open to the public on the web pages of the journal.
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PRÁVNĚHISTORICKÉ STUDIE, Vol 47 No 2 (2017), 62–72
Stopadesáté výročí vydání Prosincové ústavy
[The 150th Anniversary of the December Constitution]
Karel Malý
published online: 21. 02. 2018
abstract
The article is devoted to the content and historical context of the December Constitution, a set of constitutional acts passeed in 1867. The author desribes the events preceding the enactment and the constitution itself, consisting of seven acts. The article then examines the individual acts and notices their most important sections. The first act listed dealt with organization of the legislative and executive branch of power in the state. Author notes the December Constitution vested more power in the Monarch than the previous Constitution did. The second act concerned with civil rights and established a list of freedoms comparable to other constitutions created in the 19th century. The next part of the article, however, points out that not all of these rights were actually abided by the authorities, which is the reason why other two acts, forming the constitution, were passed. In the concluding part of the article, the author mentions the change of the Austrian-Hungarian society throughout the 19th century and outlines the events and circumstances under which the December Constitution was repealed.
Stopadesáté výročí vydání Prosincové ústavy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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